Region: The Northern Territory
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Animal Tagging
Animal Tagging deploys miniaturised sensors on marine animals to collect oceanographic data from remote and hard-to-access environments. In the Southern Ocean, Weddell and southern elephant seals are equipped with CTD satellite relay data loggers (often including fluorometers which measure ocean productivity), to collect high resolution ocean observations derived from temperature, salinity and depth profiles in…
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Animal Tracking
Animal Tracking supports the collection of a wide range of data using tagged animals including fish, sharks and marine mammals. Data collection Animal Tracking consists of two sub-Facilities: Acoustic Telemetry, which uses a continental-scale array of strategically placed underwater acoustic receivers and a central data repository to monitor and track broad-scale movements of tagged animals,…
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Biogeochemical Argo
Biogeochemical Argo floats are profiling floats that, in addition to temperature and salinity, carry sensors to measure any combination of dissolved oxygen, pH, dissolved nitrate, chlorophyll fluorescence, particulate backscatter and incoming solar radiation. These measurements are used to address science questions regarding variability in the oceans’ biological carbon pump, the uptake of anthropogenic CO2 by…
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Argo Floats
Argo Floats deployed by IMOS provide real-time observations of the oceans around Australia. Argo floats measure both temperature and salinity in the upper 2000m of the ocean every 10 days. Argo floats have revolutionised our understanding of the broad scale structure of the ocean. Since the Argo program began, the array of floats have provided…